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<div class='news_item'><h3><a href='http://webscience.org/article/82.html'>BBC's Virtual Revolution - Web Science's Contribution</a></h3><div class='news_item_content'><div ><p>The first episode of BBC's landmark series <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/virtualrevolution/index.shtml">Virtual Revolution</a> airs 830pm on BB2 Saturday January 30th. Web Science has played a formative role in shaping this series. <a href="http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/nrs/">Professor Nigel Shadbolt</a> acted as Series Consultant and appears with Sir Tim Berner-Lee. We will be linking the issues raised&nbsp; by the series into a range of material here at the Web Science Trust site.</p></div></div></div><div class='news_item'><h3><a href='http://webscience.org/article/80.html'>Trust Directors lead development of data.gov.uk</a></h3><div class='news_item_content'><div ><p><span style="font-size: 12px;">Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt have played a key role in the development of the new&nbsp;<a style="color: #000000;" href="http://www.data.gov.uk/">data.gov.uk</a>&nbsp;web site launched today by the UK Government.</span></p></div><p><a href='http://webscience.org/article/80.html'>Read More</a></p></div></div><div class='news_item'><h3><a href='http://webscience.org/article/75.html'>Key role for Nigel Shadbolt in local government data release</a></h3><div class='news_item_content'><div ><p><span style="font-size: 12px;">Speaking yesterday at No.10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, announced that he had asked&nbsp;<a style="color: #b01c21;" href="http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/nrs">Professor Nigel Shadbolt</a>&nbsp;of the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton to lead a panel of experts who will oversee the release of local public data, ensuring that it is linked effectively across relevant agencies, authorities and government departments.</span></p></div><p><a href='http://webscience.org/article/75.html'>Read More</a></p></div></div>
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